Comment on Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs

ianovic69@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I won’t argue about the legitimacy of crypto simply because I don’t care enough but you have to be fucking stupid to run non-FOSS crypto miners and instead go with something proprietary like this and then be surprised it fucks up your shit.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t care enough but you have to be fucking stupid to run non-FOSS crypto miners

    Fixed that for you.

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  • Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is there a difference between FLOSS & FOSS? Besides the word libre?

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    • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Libre is Spanish for free, so I guess not.

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      • HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        FLOSS & FOSS

        To emphasize that “free software” refers to freedom and not to price, we sometimes write or say “free (libre) software,” adding the French or Spanish word that means free in the sense of freedom. In some contexts, it works to use just “libre software.”

        From www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html

        They also say:

        We in the free software movement don’t use either of these terms, because we don’t want to be neutral on the political question. We stand for freedom, and we show it every time—by saying “free” and “libre”—or “free (libre).”

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